Improvement in harrow and cultivator combined



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Letters Patent No. 91,917, dated June 29,1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN AND CULTIV'ATOR COMBINED.

-The Schedule referred tp in these Letters P'atent and making part ofthe same.

To all whom fit may concern.-

Be it known that I, NV. It. GUMMINGS, of McGut chanville, in the countyof Vander-burg, and State of Indiana, have invented a new `and improvedHarrow and Cnltivator;A and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enableothers'skilled in the art to make and use the same,'ret`ere nce beinghad to the aecompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for harrowing andcultivating corn, cotton, 85e., planted in rows, whereby it is designedto provide a machine adapted for harrowing and cultivatingat the sametime, on each side ot'a row, and which may also be readily adjusted foroperation as a barrow alone.

The drawing represents a perspective view of' my improved machine. v 4

l connect the twoV beams A of a triangular barrow bythe -beains B,elevated upon posts, and so arranged that the front ends of the beams Ashall be sufiiciently far apart to pass along each side of a row ot'corn, cotton, or other substance, without injuring it, to perinit thebarrow to work `on each side thereof.

From the front lbeam B, I suspend two cultivators, O, each independentof -the other, and provided with l1andles,vD, and also arranged to workon each side of the row.

This arranfrement provides an apparatus capable of harrowing andcultivating simultaneously, and on both sides of a row, to be operatedpreferably by two horses, and adapted for great eiciency.

I have also arranged it so as to be employed as a barrow only, by theapplication of a transverse beam E, having teeth to act in the spacebetween the front ends of the beams A, andnby arranging the beams of theharrows to be suspended above the ground from the rear beam B, by means'of the staples F, ont-he said beams, and the hooks G on the beam B.

lHaving thus described my invention,

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patentv l. Thecombination, with the barrow-beams A', united by the elevated beams-B,of the cultivators G, all arranged substantially as specified.

2. The arrangement of the beamsA and E, as specified.

v W. It. GUMMINGS.

Witnesses:

1t. P. HOOKER, JOB STAFFORD.

